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More than a whimsy?
Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.
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Week in review
“The Birth of Modern Choice: Where life is lived” Daniel T. Rodgers, The Hedgehog Review ...
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The Critic’s Notebook
On modern artisans, autochrome photographs, Caetlynn Booth, “Sylvia” & more from the world of culture.
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A Shakespearean romance comes to New York
On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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A Bayadère for Budapest
La Bayadère opens with a tiger hunt, during which the warrior Solor sends a secret message to his love Nikiya, the temple ...
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David Lehman wins the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize
The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize. Mr. Lehman will receive $3,000, and his collection Ithaca will ...
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“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
On modern artisans, autochrome photographs, Caetlynn Booth, “Sylvia” & more from the world of culture.
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A practicing art historian
While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are still largely content to see his work as a West Coast variety of American ...
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“Moral kitsch & standing ovations,” by Max L. Feldman
Max L. Feldman on Balanchine's Divertimento No 15, Cunningham's Summerspace & Martin Schläpfer’s Pathétique.